US 12,192,568 B2 · Systems and methods for storing programs

Abstract

Systems and methods are described for storing programs. For example, a media guidance application (e.g., executed on a server) may determine that a user has been watching a program (e.g., a movie) for longer than a particular time threshold (e.g., 20 minutes for a movie), and that the user has requested to access a different program (e.g., an episode of a series broadcast on another channel). In response to determining that the user has been watching the program (e.g., the movie) for longer than the particular time threshold (e.g., 20 minutes for the movie), and that the user has requested to access the different program (e.g., the episode of a series broadcast on another channel), the media guidance application may perform an action to store the initial program (e.g., the movie) before executing the request to access the different program.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a first request to access first content provided via a first content source;
determining, while causing the first content to be played based on the first request, that a second request to access second content available via a second content source has been received;
in response to (i) determining the second request has been received and (ii) determining the first content has been played for at least a threshold amount of time when the second request was received, performing a particular action to the first content;
determining, while causing the second content to be played based on the second request, that a third request to cease playing of the second content has been received;
and
in response to (iii) determining the third request has been received and (iv) determining the second content has not been played for at least the threshold amount of time, declining to perform the particular action to the second content.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/229,364Filed 2 Aug 2023 · continuation

Priority

13 Nov 2020

Published

US 2024/0048797 A18 Feb 2024

Granted

7 Jan 2025

Term ends

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Classification13 codes

H04N 21/4334
Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations: recording operations
H04L 12/4625
LAN interconnection over a bridge based backbone: single bridge functionality, e.g. connection of two networks over a single bridge
H04N 5/76
Details of television systems: television signal recording
H04N 21/222
Server components or server architectures: secondary servers, e.g. proxy server, cable television Head-end

Family

PCT/US2016/059396Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Oct 2016

Application17/097,606Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Nov 2020

US 10,869,084 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Dec 2020

Application17/488,466Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Sep 2021

US 11,159,843 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Oct 2021

US 2024/0048797 A1Pre-grant publication · published 8 Feb 2024

US 11,765,422 B2Parent of this continuation

Application16/066,245Parent of this continuation

US 2020/0169780 A1Published application

US 2021/0136443 A1Published application

US 2022/0060779 A1Published application

US 12,192,568 B2This patent

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